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Reading his Wikipedia page, he had kidney disease since 2006. He made a plea online on October 14, 2025 for a kidney donor. Did his health deteriorate rapidly to the point where he did not realize he needed a donor until less than 2 weeks ago? Dialysis does suck- during my years at Rutgers, I was on a paid ambulance that transported dialysis patients to and from their appointments.
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"Young" men can have a tendency to live in denial of health problems. Old men too. Not defining young and old.
Somethings not adding up. I wonder if he was refusing dialysis, became uremic and went into multisystem organ failure, then it was too late. Either that or he had some acute, medical event, unrelated to but common in renal patients and his death was labeled due to kidney disease.It is definitely unusual. I just read a NYP article that said he had CKD (chronic kidney disease) since 2006. You can have, CKD but not need dialysis or a transplant, it gets watched & monitored by your nephrologist.
He said he got very sick over the summer & went to the doctor when he was told he needed a new kidney. If CKD was controlled/monitored you usually get a catheter put in your chest for urgent dialysis until you either get a long term fistula or peritoneal catheter put in or you get the transplant. I run a surgery center that puts these catheters in every day. You can live for years & years on dialysis. Not a great life since dialysis is 3x a week for 4 hours a day if you don't do the home dialysis. But also a bunch of restrictions on your life.
The article, that was intererviewing him, doesn't make it sound like he had been on dialysis, but he did say he waited at least 2 months after getting symptomatic before seeing a doctor.
The nephrologist I work with will be in on Wednesday. I'll circle back with, hopefully, some clarification.
The article I was reading
Nick Mangold’s heartbreaking final interview before Jets great’s death at 41
Nick Mangold passed away Saturday at 41, less than two weeks after the former Jets center went public with the fact he needed a kidney transplant.
Somethings not adding up. I wonder if he was refusing dialysis, became uremic and went into multisystem organ failure, then it was too late. Either that or he had some acute, medical event, unrelated to but common in renal patients and his death was labeled due to kidney disease.
